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Apostoloff

By (author) Sibylle Lewitscharoff, Translated by Katy Derbyshire

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â€œGone, finito, The End, I say. A father who puts an end to it all before he wears down the whole family deserves more praise than damnation.â€ Two sisters travel to Sofiaâ€”in a convoy of luxury limousines arranged by a fellow Bulgarian exileâ€”to bury their less-than-beloved father. Like tourists, they are chauffeured by the ever-charming Ruben Apostoloffâ€”one sister in the back seat, one in the passenger seat, one sharp-tongued and aggressive, the other polite and considerate. In a caustic voice, Apostoloff shows them the treasures of his beloved country: the peacock-eye pottery (which contains poisonous dye), the Black Sea coast (which is utterly destroyed), the architecture (a twentieth-century crime). His attempts to win them over seem doomed to fail, as the sistersâ€™ Bulgarian heritage is a heavy burdenâ€”their father, a successful doctor and melancholy immigrant, appears in their dreams still dragging the rope with which he hanged himself. An account of a daughterâ€™s bitterly funny reckoning with her father and his country, laden with linguistic wit and black humor, Apostoloff will introduce the unique voice of Sibylle Lewitscharoff to a new and eager audience.

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